The Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and 22 participating clinics, including the UMA Dental Hygiene Clinic in Bangor, are providing dental hygiene services to veterans unable to afford preventive dental care.
The services are available at 201 Texas Ave. in Bangor.
The Maine Veterans’ Dental Network, overseen by MBVS, received a $100,000 grant from Northeast Delta Dental to serve veterans who do not otherwise have dental coverage or cannot afford dental care. The UMA Dental Hygiene Clinic received $6,000 of this grant funding to provide preventive dental hygiene services (e.g. cleanings, X-rays, fluoride treatment and approved restorative needs that meet the program criteria) for qualifying veterans.
This program also provides UMA’s dental hygiene program students with valuable clinical experiences under the supervision of UMA’s Dental Hygiene faculty.
Through this grant program, which began last fall, the clinic has provided preventative dental hygiene services to over 30 qualified veterans.
This program ends April 29, 2022.
To receive dental hygiene services, veterans must provide a copy of their DD-214 (discharge papers) to the clinic and grant permission to forward the document to MBVS for inclusion in its database. If the veteran does not have a copy of their DD-214, MBVS can assist them in acquiring one by submitting the State of Maine Request Form found at maine.gov/veterans, located on the MBVS website.
To make an appointment, call the UMA Dental Hygiene Clinic at 207-262-7872 or visit uma.edu.
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